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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The process for the 2025 Baldrige Award, the nation’s highest recognition for excellence in organizational performance, is now underway with the 2025 Baldrige Award Criteria now available.
The Baldrige Award Criteria are used to identify and recognize organizations that…
(GelSight: Waltham, MA) -- GelSight, a pioneer in tactile intelligence technology, has released its GelSight Mobile 4.0 software package. In this update, GelSight customers’ top requested capabilities are now live. Customers can easily combine scans to inspect larger surface areas with automated…
(CADDi: Chicago) -- American manufacturers aren’t seeing the future through rose-tinted glasses.
According to new research conducted and released by software development company CADDi, about 49% of U.S. manufacturers expect a recession to hit in 2025, with 84% predicting it will happen within the…
(Configit: Copenhagen, Denmark) -- Configit, a global leader in configuration life cycle management (CLM), has released Configit Ace 7 and Quote 13. Configit Ace 7 is designed and optimized for SaaS deployment with new significant capabilities that are only available to SaaS customers, while…
(Thomson: Downers Grove, IL) -- Thomson Industries Inc., a leading linear motion control solutions manufacturer, has released the first-ever collaborative extension of cobots. The Movotrak CTU 7th axis (cobot transfer unit) features collision detection settings for groundbreaking programming and…
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) – Renishaw, a global engineering technologies company, has partnered with Canada Makes, Canada’s premier additive manufacturing (AM) network, to promote the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) technology across Canada. Renishaw’s AM engineers, designers, and…
(ISO: Geneva) -- As COP29, the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, drew to a close on Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Standards Pavilion, led by ISO, IEC, and ULSE, alongside eight other standards organizations, hailed significant progress in recognizing the crucial role of…
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has launched an experimental platform for energy sector-related data with enhanced emphasis on governance and usability. The Open Energy Hub is a connection hub of…
(MDIC: Arlington, VA) -- Medical Device Innovation Consortium has developed a new report in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Zimmer Biomet, Medtronic, and other leaders in the medical device industry, the Accelerate Sustainable…
(AW-Lake Co.: Oak Creek, WI) -- AW-Lake Co., manufacturer of industrial flow meters and flow monitoring equipment, announced that it has achieved ISO 14001:2015 certification, an internationally recognized standard for environmental management systems (EMS). This certification highlights AW-Lake’s…
(Exemplar Global: Milwaukee) -- Exemplar Global announced that more than 100 individuals and organizations have been honored as part of the Exemplar Global Community Recognition campaign.
The 2024 Exemplar Global Community Recognition acknowledges honorees across eight categories, including…
(Metrologic Group: Wixom, MI) -- To optimize its metrology process, an industrial company must think globally with a proactive approach based on planning, programming, measurement, and analysis. The first step, planning, is essential for complete error-free 3D measurement.
Planner X4, a new tool…
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected MIT to lead a new Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Hub to support a partnership of eight New England universities committed to expanding science and technology entrepreneurship across the region, accelerating the translation…
(Amtivo: Arvada, CO; King’s Hill, England) -- Two leading certification bodies, American Systems Registrar (ASR) and Orion Registrar, have rebranded as Amtivo in the United States.
This marks another significant milestone for Amtivo Group, one of the fastest-growing brands in the certification…
(Siemens: Munich) -- Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering, a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation and analysis market. Altair shareholders will receive $113 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10 billion. The offer price…
(IEEE: Piscataway, NJ) -- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has released the results of “The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond: An IEEE Global Study,” a new…
(Taqtile: Seattle) -- Industrial organizations with multiple sites and multiple operations staffed by hundreds and even thousands of employees need to meticulously and efficiently manage the dissemination of work instructions and related data to their deskless staff. The ability to simplify,…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that five organizations will receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential award for performance excellence. Among the recipients…
(Rockwell: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, has launched its connected worker solution from Plex by Rockwell Automation. These industry-leading capabilities were developed to help users enhance productivity…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $15 million for a center of excellence to support U.S. engagement in international standardization for critical and emerging technologies (CETs) essential to U.S.…
(Digital Twin Consortium: Boston) -- Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) has announced revised definitions for digital twin and digital thread, aligning these concepts more closely with core digital engineering principles. These refined definitions underscore the central role of digital twins and digital…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Executive Fellows Program is a one-year, nationally ranked leadership development experience for direct reports to the most senior leader in the organization or business unit leaders.
The program prepares this elite group of rising senior executives for…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has made its first award under the CHIPS Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial Fabrication Facilities of up to $123 million in direct funding to Polar Semiconductor (Polar). The award follows the previously signed…
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced a new technology to reduce quality inspection delays in large-scale manufacturing operations.
Combining laser tracking with laser radar functionality enables manufacturers to…
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software Inc. announces the release of Verisurf 2025. With the only CAD/CAM-based metrology software on the market, Verisurf continues to build on its heritage of intelligent model-based definition (MBD) with new features, enhancements, and optimized workflows…